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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

So Invent a Bigger Needle

This can't be a big deal. American technology has always gotten around the practice of fundamental virtues, like moderation: > It's just one of those wicked telling signs, one of those sad little cultural punches that make you cringe and sigh even as you stifle a

Odd Consumer News

> Capitalizing on shortages of Microsoft's new video-game console, several people have attracted bids as high as $600 or more on eBay this week by offering Xbox 360 boxes -- just empty boxes -- in ways that made it seem, without reading closely, that the items for sale were

No Comment

> A Peruvian woman spent a month in a male prison in Argentina after she was mistaken for a man. > And, when she was finally discovered and transferred to a women's jail, she asked to be transferred back.

Christmas or Xmas?

Archbishop Chaput of Denver has written a great little essay about the difference between Christmas and Xmas [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=6&art_id=31083]. Excerpt: > The world has an ingenious ability to attach itself to what Christians believe; tame it, subvert it,

Compassion Saves

But what good is better health if you can mock the infirm? > A recently published Brigham Young University study that examined the possible link between religiosity and better psychosocial health found that compassion was the active ingredient in the relationship. > Patrick Steffen, lead author of the study and

Smutty Thinking

> A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio is trying to tempt college kids into trading their Bibles for pornography. > It's part of a program called Smut for Smut sponsored by the student organization called Atheist Agenda. Link [http://www.msnbc.msn.

Attention Pittsburgh Readers!

The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology is holding a conference this Friday and Saturday: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries [http://www.salvationhistory.com//mission/wordworshipmysteries.cfm]. Plenty of good speakers.

Ford Capitulates?

Just as every "Happy Holidays" greeting isn't a capitulation to secularists, gays oughtta recognize that every refusal to fund their causes isn't a capitulation to the "religious right": > Ford Motor Co. said it will stop running ads for its Jaguar and

The Anti-JPII Forces

> A group of dissident Catholics has organized public opposition to the quick beatification of Pope John Paul II (bio - news). > Eleven theologians and one journalist from Europe and Latin American have joined in a statement entitled "The beatification of John-Paul II: appeal for clarity." In

Fighting Obesity?

Trying to eliminate fat or just transferring all that fat to the lawyers' wallets? > In a lawsuit they plan to file in the next few months, Mr. [Stephen] Gardner [of the Center for Science in the Public Interest] and half a dozen other lawyers, several of them veterans